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📅 February 27, 2018 Build A Product Catalog ⏱ 2 minutes read

Product Catalog: A Deeper Dive Into Customizing WordPress Plugins

In today's lesson, we will cover some advanced topics of Customizing WordPress Plugins along with incorporating out new Web Services application into our WordPress Product Catalog plugin.

📅 February 26, 2018 Podcast ⏱ 2 minutes read

A General Approach To Testing Strategies For Developers

Testing strategies for developers are often seen as lacking import. To be honest, developers are in their role to write code, not provide quality assurance. However, that does not excuse the implementers from being part…

📅 February 26, 2018 AWS Tour ⏱ 2 minutes read

Amazon Lambda – Go Serverless

One of the hot topics in software development these days is serverless applications. As with so many other areas, Amazon has a service for that. The Lambda offering is a full-featured way to get started…

📅 February 25, 2018 Build A Product Catalog ⏱ 2 minutes read

Product Catalog: Using Web Services to remotely interact with our Catalog

Today's lesson is going to pick up where we left off with our product catalog applications. In this lesson, we are going to build a web services application using Java and the Spring framework…

📅 February 23, 2018 Podcast ⏱ 2 minutes read

Stop and Smell The Roses

Life is a busy thing for those of us in IT and pursuing entrepreneurial goals. Nevertheless, we still need to find some time to “live” life while still pursuing those areas. The act of stopping…

📅 February 22, 2018 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 2 minutes read

A Crash Course in Learning New Environments

No matter whether we move around jobs or stay with a single employer, there comes a time where we need to learn new environments. Sometimes these are simple and well-documented. However, I have found…

📅 February 21, 2018 Podcast ⏱ 2 minutes read

When to Give In When To Hold Your Ground

There comes a time where you have a difference of opinion from your customer. This may be due to personal taste, or it may be a misunderstanding. There are even cases where a customer…

📅 February 19, 2018 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 5 minutes read

Three Easy Steps Toward Building Your Skills

Practice Makes Perfect The best part about the foundational items of programming is that they cannot be avoided. Every day you code you will get more comfortable with many, if not all, of the…

📅 February 19, 2018 Podcast ⏱ 2 minutes read

Make The Most of Search Engines

We all like to work through the problems we have been presented. However, this is not the fastest way to a solution. When we are in an office, we can pester our co-workers. On…

📅 February 16, 2018 Podcast ⏱ 2 minutes read

Eating the Frog and Reducing Stress

Eating the Frog is a term that may be new to you. Simply put, this is the idea of getting the things done that you want to do the least. It is a popular…